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Black phosphorus (BP), a layered van der Waals (vdW) crystal, has unique in-plane band anisotropy and many resulting anisotropy properties such as the effective mass, electron mobility, optical absorption, thermal conductivity and plasmonic…

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Black phosphorus presents a very anisotropic crystal structure, making it a potential candidate for hyperbolic plasmonics, characterized by a permittivity tensor where one of the principal components is metallic and the other dielectric.…

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Ab-initio calculations have been performed to study the geometry and electronic structure of boron (B) and nitrogen (N) doped graphene sheet. The effect of doping has been investigated by varying the concentrations of dopants from 2 % (one…

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Negative compressibility generated by many-body effects in 2D electronic systems can enhance gate capacitance. We observe capacitance enhancement in a newly emerged 2D layered material, atomically thin black phosphorus (BP). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Yingying Wu , Xiaolong Chen , Zefei Wu , Shuigang Xu , Tianyi Han , Jiangxiazi Lin , Yuan Cai , Yuheng He , Chun Cheng , Ning Wang

Black phosphorus (BP) has recently emerged as an alternative 2D semiconductor owing to its fascinating electronic properties such as tunable bandgap and high charge carrier mobility. The structural investigation of few-layer BP, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yangjin Lee , Jun-Yeong Yoon , Declan Scullion , Jeongsu Jang , Elton J G Santos , Hu Young Jeong , Kwanpyo Kim

Atomic layers of black phosphorus (P) isolated from its layered bulk make a new two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting crystal with sizable direct bandgap, high carrier mobility, and promises for 2D electronics and optoelectronics. However,…

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Van der Waals heterostructures have become a rapidly growing field in condensed matter research, offering a platform to engineer novel quantum systems by stacking different two-dimensional (2D) materials. A diverse range of material…

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Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have been widely investigated because of their potential for heterogeneous integration with modern electronics. However, several major challenges remain, such as the deposition of high-quality dielectrics on…

Preceding the current interest in layered materials for electronic applications, research in the 1960's found that black phosphorus combines high carrier mobility with a fundamental band gap. We introduce its counterpart, dubbed few-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Han Liu , Adam T. Neal , Zhen Zhu , David Tomanek , Peide D. Ye

SnSe, a group IV-VI monochalcogenide with layered crystal structure similar to black phosphorus, has recently attracted extensive interests due to its excellent thermoelectric properties and potential device applications. Experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-30 Kenan Zhang , Ke Deng , Jiaheng Li , Haoxiong Zhang , Wei Yao , Jonathan Denlinger , Yang Wu , Wenhui Duan , Shuyun Zhou

Phosphorene, a two-dimensional (2D) monolayer of black phosphorus, has attracted considerable theoretical interest, although the experimental realization of monolayer, bilayer, and few-layer flakes has been a significant challenge. Here we…

Controlled modulation of electronic band structure in two-dimensional (2D) materials via doping is crucial for devices fabrication. For instance doped graphene has been envisaged for various applications like sensors, super-capacitors,…

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Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted great attention because of the rich physics and potential applications in next-generation nano-sized electronic devices. Recently,…

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We report the observation of two additional sub-natural line width quantum interference in the $D_2$ manifold of $^{39}K$ vapor, in addition to the usual single Electromagnetically induced transparency peak. The other two features appear…

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We theoretically study, through combining the density functional theory and an unfolding technique, the electronic band structure and the charge doping effects for the deposition of potassium (K) on multilayer FeSe films grown on SrTiO3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Fawei Zheng , Li-Li Wang , Qi-Kun Xue , Ping Zhang

In the fast growing two-dimensional (2D) materials family, anisotropic 2D materials, with their intrinsic in-plane anisotropy, exhibit a great potential in optoelectronics. One such typical material is black phosphorus (BP), with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Chong Wang , Guowei Zhang , Shenyang Huang , Yuangang Xie , Hugen Yan

The recent renaissance of black phosphorus (BP) as a two-dimensional 2D layered material has generated tremendous interest in its tunable electronic band gap and highly anisotropic transport properties that offer new opportunities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Shan Dong , Anmin Zhang , Kai Liu , Jianting Ji , Y. G. Ye , X. G. Luo , X. H. Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Yinghao Jie , Changfeng Chen , Xiaoqun Wang , Qingming Zhang

Phosphorene, a single atomic layer of black phosphorus, has recently emerged as a new twodimensional (2D) material that holds promise for electronic and photonic technology. Here we experimentally demonstrate that the electronic structure…

The incorporation of electrically tunable materials into photonic structures such as waveguides and metasurfaces enables dynamic control of light propagation by an applied potential. While many materials have been shown to exhibit…

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